The general director of Professional Training and Special Regime, Agustín Sigüenza, highlighted the “great work” that the Community’s art schools carry out in every way, emphasizing the “high degree of employability” that they achieve among their students a percentage of professional placement at the end of studies which has been quantified at “around 82 percent”.
The Únicos training program (in which two departments of the Council are involved in addition to the Foacal artisans’ association), an educational plan spread over ten years which aims to directly link art schools with professionals and businesses in the trades artistic and traditional, arrived this Monday at the Ávila School of Art as part of its 2024 program, thus expressing “its intention to transmit to students a positive spirit regarding their professional future”, encouraging them to create their own jobs and thus contribute to the retention of talent in the Community.
During the event, nearly a hundred students, in person and online, attended two conferences and two practical workshops.
The Minister of Industry, Commerce and Employment, Leticia García, supported with her presence this event in Ávila, for which illustration and heritage restoration were selected as specialties, led by professionals of this sector such as Borja González (illustrator), Concha Cirujano. (conservator-restorer) and Pedro Pablo Pérez (geologist and specialist in petrology applied to the restoration of monuments).
Accompanied by other public representatives such as the General Director of Vocational Training of the Ministry of Education, Agustín Sigüenza; the Director General of Commerce and Consumption of the Ministry of Industry, María Pettit; the manager of Foacal, Félix Sanz; and officials of the Junta de Castilla y León d’Avila, Leticia García recalled that this day, like others that took place in other art schools or that will take place soon, “aims above all to highlight in contact training in the field of crafts, trades, with the world of work and business, because it is very important that school students know the possibilities of business and the professional future of the market .
The event, which took place at the Ávila School of Arts, transforming its meeting room into a large classroom, also wants, added the advisor, “to give visibility to these professions, by also making it known to the general public. objective “and very interesting to emphasize that craftsmanship has had a past, has a present and, above all, also has a future”, says Ical.
